shlex

Simple lexical analysis of shell-style syntaxes.

import shlex

Functions

shlex.split(s: str, comments: bool = False, posix: bool = True) -> list[str]

Split a shell-like string into tokens using POSIX shlex rules.

shlex.quote(s: str) -> str

Return a shell-escaped version of a string.

shlex.join(split_command: list[str]) -> str

Join shell tokens into a command string using shell escaping.